Macedonia (Grecia)

"Macedonia (en griego , Makedonía) es una región de Grecia, situada en el norte del país. Tiene una superficie de 34.177 km² y una población de 2.625.681 habitantes. Tesalónica o Salónica (en griego , Thesaloniki, o , Saloniki) es la capital histórica de la provincia de Macedonia, así como la capital de la región de Macedonia Central y la segunda ciudad más poblada del país. Otras ciudades grandes en la región son Kavala, Serres, Katerini, Véria y Kozani. Macedonia es la antigua patria de Filipo II, Alejandro Magno y Aristóteles y el corazón del antiguo imperio helénico. En recuerdo del Reino de Macedonia han quedado muchos sitios antiguos, como el de Vergina, donde se encuentra la tumba de Filipo II; Pella, la ciudad natal de Alejandro Magno; Díon, la ciudad de Filipo a los pies del monte Olimpo y Estagira, la ciudad natal de Aristóteles. En Macedonia se localiza la península Calcídica (en griego ) con el Monte Athos."

"Macedonia (/mæsdoni/ MASS--DOH-nee-; Greek: , Makedonía [maceðonia]) is a geographic and historical region of Greece in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region, dominated by mountains in the interior and the port cities of Thessaloniki (or Salonika) and Kavala on its southern coastline. Macedonia is part of Northern Greece, together with Thrace and sometimes Thessaly and Epirus. It incorporates most of the territories of ancient Macedon, a kingdom ruled by the Argeads whose most celebrated members were Alexander the Great and his father Philip II. The name Macedonia was later applied to identify various administrative areas in the Roman/Byzantine Empire with widely differing borders (see Macedonia (region) for details). Even before the establishment of the modern Greek state in 1830, it was identified as a Greek province, albeit without clearly defined geographical borders. By the mid 19th century, the name was becoming consolidated informally, defining more of a distinct geographical, rather than political, region in the southern Balkans. At the end of the Ottoman Empire most of the region known as Rumelia (from Ottoman Turkish: Rumeli, "Land of the Romans") was divided by the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913, following the Ottoman defeat in the Balkan Wars of 191213. Greece, Serbia, and Bulgaria each took control of portions of the Macedonian region, with Greece obtaining the largest portion; a small section went to Albania. The region was an administrative subdivision of Greece until the administrative reform of 1987, when the region was divided into the regions of West Macedonia and Central Macedonia and part of the region of East Macedonia and Thrace, the latter containing also the whole of the region of Thrace. Central Macedonia is the most popular tourist destination in Greece with more than 3.6 million tourists in 2009 (18% of the total number of tourists who visited Greece that year)."